- Contributors
Ruth Barton is O'Kane Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Film Studies at University College Dublin. Her previous publications include Jim Sheridan: Framing the Nation (The Liffey Press, 2000) and Irish National Cinema (Routledge, 2004). She is currently working on a study of Irish actors in Hollywood to be published by Irish Academic Press.
Elizabeth Butler Cullingford is Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor in English Literature and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Her publications include Ireland's Others: Ethnicity and Gender in Irish Literature and Popular Culture (2001); Gender and History in Yeats's Love Poetry (1993), and Yeats, Ireland and Fascism (1981). She is currently writing a book on literary representations of the only child.
Brian Griffin teaches history and Irish Studies at Bath Spa University. He is the author of The Bulkies: Police and Crime in Belfast, 1800-1865 (Irish Academic Press, 1997) and Sources for the Study of Crime in Ireland, 1801-1921 (Four Courts Press, 2005).
Dianne Hall holds an Australian Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the University of Melbourne. In 2003 she published Women and the Church in Medieval Ireland, c.1140-1540. Hall is currently collaborating with Elizabeth Malcolm on a research project analyzing gender and violence in Ireland. [End Page 288]
Yvonne McKenna is Associate Research Fellow at the University of Limerick and held a Government of Ireland Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Limerick from 2003 to 2005. She has published several articles based on research undertaken in Ireland, England, and India and has taught Irish history, Irish politics, gender studies, and research methods in England and Ireland. Her first monograph, Made Holy: Irish Women Religious at Home and Abroad, will be published by Irish Academic Press in 2006. McKenna's research focuses on identity and on gendered, religious, ethnic, and migrant identity in twentieth- and twenty-first century Ireland and its diaspora.
Gerardine Meaney is Director of Irish Studies at University College Dublin. She is the author of (Un)Like Subjects:Women,Theory, Fiction (Routledge, 1994) and Nora (Cork University Press, 2004). She was one of the major editors of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing: Women's Writing and Traditions, Vols. 4 and 5 (Cork University Press, 2002) and is the author of numerous articles on gender and culture in Ireland.
Pauline Prior is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy at Queen's University Belfast. Her publications include Mental Health and Politics in Northern Ireland (1993), Gender and Mental Health (1999), and several articles on mental health policy and law. Prior is now working on a book focusing on crime, gender, and insanity in nineteenth-century Ireland.
Joseph Valente is Director of Irish Studies at the University of Illinois. His publications include James Joyce and the Problem of Justice: Negotiating Sexual and Colonial Difference; Dracula's Crypt: Bram Stoker, Irishness, and the Question of Blood; and Quare Joyce. He is now working to complete Contested Territory: Race and Manliness in Modern Ireland.
Margaret Ward is Director of the Women's Resource and Development Agency, Belfast. Her publications include Unmanageable Revolutionaries:Women and Irish Nationalism (1983), biographies of Maud Gonne and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington, and Irish Women and [End Page 289] Nationalism: Soldiers, New Women and Wicked Hags (2004), co-edited with Louise Ryan. Ward and Ryan are now collaborating on a collection focused on the Irish suffrage movement, to be published by Irish Academic Press in 2007.
Clair Wills is Professor of Irish Literature at Queen Mary, University of London. She has published widely on Irish poetry and Irish women's writing. Her study of Irish culture during the war years, That Neutral Island: A Cultural History of Ireland during the Second World War, will be published by Faber and Faber in 2007. [End Page 290]